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X Gallentius
Quantum Cats Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.06.01 21:18:00 -
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Edited by: X Gallentius on 01/06/2010 21:21:45
 Originally by: Haze zec
So basically everyone who is solo and wants to do missions in a big slow ship or doesn't have enough friends to help him out with the camp is just better off staying in high sec? And we wonder why there's not more people doing missions in low sec???
Most low-sec gates aren't camped 23/7. Jump a rookie ship into the low-sec system you're going to run and get to know your surroundings a bit. Is it camped? When is it camped? What is camping it? Once you know this you can make an assessment on what to do. Most often you'll be able to get that missioning BS into low-sec. Here are some options:
Option 1: You can do the scouting yourself: 1) jump a rookie ship into low sec entry system to see if anybody is camping, and then 2) come back with your BS.
Option 2: You can use risk assessment: Jump your BS into the low sec system and hope for the best. Sometimes you'll get ganked, most times you won't. Don't faction fit these BS. Hopefully you'll make more on the missions than you lose on these BS.
Option 3: You can minimize risk:
Put cloak and warp core stabs, smartbombs, and energy neutralizers on your BS - plus some e-war drones. Re-fit the ship with mods you have in your cargo hold once you get into the low sec system. The only ships that will really nail you are sensor-boosted infinity-point HICs. They aren't as common as you would first think.
Option 4: Avoid the problem altogether: Get your mission ship into low sec (see above) and keep it there. Use rookie ship to jump into low sec and get to your mission ship. Your rookie ship dies? Who cares? warp off and go pick up mission ship.
Option 5: Make friends in your NPC corp. Work as a team.
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X Gallentius
Quantum Cats Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.06.02 21:10:00 -
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Originally by: Haze zec
X Gallentius, I'm sorry but you obviously don't know what you are talking about unless you are baiting.
I jump in and out of Gallente and Caldari low sec all the time. 95+% of the time there's no camp. Of all those jumps, there are only a few cases where there are HICS that can actually point you and really do some damage.
After you get to know your surroundings, the locations of the camped systems will be well-understood and then it becomes a case of risk assessment which makes this game great (without alt scout, without a friend; with alt scout/friend risk is zero).
If you're hiding every time somebody enters local then you probably need to stay in high sec anyways. Your tolerance for risk is too low for low-sec.
Most of the time the guy in local is just passing through or doing some PvE site himself and isn't really looking for a gank. After you get to know the system you'll be able to filter out the PvE guys from the PvP guys from the PvP guys who probe people out, and you'll be able to act accordingly.
Used to run missions in Domi out of Osmeden into Chardalane and Maut. I think I got probed down once. (? long time ago). Chardalane is a dead end system and nobody camps it. The key to Maut was coming in via Adacyne which was much less traveled than from Osmeden. But then the Domi wasn't a faction fitted Domi, it was a fully insured Domi that I could afford to lose.
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X Gallentius
Quantum Cats Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.06.02 23:28:00 -
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The only thing I can figure is that you were a pirate before they changed the agility on ships and before they broadened the jump radius at gates. You can pretty much afk jump through low sec in a frig. Some points:
1. Why do you want to go to low sec if all you want to do is make it risk free? What's the point?
2. Try FW missions instead of regular missions then. I make 120+ million isk/hour. Low sec. Mission site broadcast to all in local. 6000 theoretical FW wts roaming around (usually only 150-200 online at one time). Not to mention the pies. reward/risk ratio is great because guys like you perceive low sec to be too dangerous.
3. Ratting in low sec in no problem at all. I do it ALL THE TIME to and from mission staging areas (where I grab my mission ship) that are 7 JUMPS AWAY - all in low sec - from mission hub. T1 frig is more than powerful enough to kill all but rare BS rat and will never get caught even if you decide to not use your short range scanner properly. But usually I use a "vulnerable" T1 cruiser for lols just to add some risk (but never get caught unless I really want to). Align out and warp out when they land. Plus, if you look at the map, there are more than enough isolated low sec systems where the risk of getting caught ratting is miniscule.
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X Gallentius
Quantum Cats Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.06.03 03:49:00 -
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Hit me up in game. I'll meet you in a T1 frig or cruiser and we can take a lap around low sec, kill some rats, etc.... We can then agree on how much real risk there actually is.
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